TEDI 3 Week 4 - Collaborating as an Empowered Teacher

Daniels, Bongiwe

TEDI 3 Week 4 - Collaborating as an Empowered Teacher

MOOC

2019-06-01

Abstract

In this video, Bongiwe Daniels, a teacher and principal at a school for the visually impaired in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, discusses how to become empowered to teach students with visual impairments. She discusses how to collaborate with other teachers to develop lesson plans and teaching techniques to support learners with visual impairments, and how they reached out to other professionals and experts in the sector for additional support, such as bringing in assistive devices. She discusses how they sought out training opportunities in order to develop their own skills in teaching learners with visual impairment. She explains how to ask the learners themselves about the techniques or strategies that would best support their learning, and how to have conversations with their parents to draw on their knowledge about their children's learning experiences. Lastly, she discusses how to reach out to specialists who can provide expert input to support learning, and of the importance of developing multi-stakeholder networks that include all members of the community to support learning.